Too Many Murders

Carmine Delmonico, the homicide cop introduced in On, Off (2007), returns in this sequel. It’s April 1967, and the college town of Holloman, Connecticut, is rocked by the murders of 12 of its citizens, all within the space of a single day. There appears to be no connection between the victims (who include an eight-month-old baby, a prostitute, and the head of a large corporation), but Carmine soon begins to wonder whether, somehow, the murders have something to do with an unknown individual, whom the FBI has code-named Ulysses, who is selling top-secret information to the Russians. Like On, Off, the novel is a contemporary-style procedural set in a pre-forensics era. The historical setting gives the novel a fresh feel, and it keeps readers off guard: if the story were set in the here and now, we’d easily be able to anticipate the flow of the plot, but since it takes place in a time before DNA evidence, national computer databases, profiling, and so on, we have no idea how Carmine can possibly find a solution. A thoroughly entertaining crime novel. --David Pitt

[About the Author]: Colleen McCullough was born in Australia. A neuropathologist, she established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before working as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years. Her writing career began with the publication of Tim, followed by The Thorn Birds, a record-breaking international bestseller. She lives on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific with her husband, Ric Robinson

Crime / Crônicas / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance policial / Suspense e Mistério